Utility functions

4.
(ادقل)

ادقل النَّخْلُ, (inf. n. إِدْقَالٌ, TA,)The palmtrees produced dates such as are termedدَقَل: (Ṣ, Mṣb, Ḳ:) or the dates of the palm-trees becameدَقَل. (Es-Sarakustee, Mṣb.)

verb form: 4. ― (signification - A2)

ادقلت الشَّاةُThe sheep, or goat, was, or became, lean, or emaciated, and small in body; despised and little in the eyes of beholders.(Ḳ.)

دَقْلٌ

دَقْلٌWeakness of the body(IAạr, Ḳ) of a man. (IAạr, TA.)

دَقَلٌ

دَقَلٌ[A certain kind of palm-trees;]i. q.خِصَابٌ[not as meaning “palm-trees having much fruit,” but as an appellation applied by the people of El-Bahreyn to the palm-trees which others call دَقَلٌ: see art. خصب]: (Ṣ, O, TA:) in the Ḳ, الخِضَابُ is erroneously put for الخِصَابُ: (TA:) n. un. with ة: (Ṣ:) Az says that دَقَلٌ signifies species (أَلْوَانٌ, of which the sing. is لَوْنٌ, [but here meaning varieties,]) of palm-trees; and the dates thereof are bad, though theدَقَلَةmay be abundant in fruit; and some have red dates, and some have black; the body of the dates being small, and the stones being large:(TA:) accord. to AḤn, the term دَقَلٌ is applied to any palmtrees[of which the varieties are]unknown: the n. un. دَقَلَةٌ is syn. with خَصْبَةٌ, of which the pl. is خِصَابٌ: and what are termed أَدْقَالٌ[pl. of دَقَلٌ] are the worst of palm-trees, and their dates are the worst of dates.(O, TA.)

word: دَقَلٌ ― (signification - A2)

Also [The fruit of the trees thus called; described above;] the worst of dates:(JK, Ṣ, Mṣb, Ḳ:) or a bad kind of dates:(Mgh:) or dates of which the kinds are unknown:(M, Ḳ:) accord. to Es-Sarakustee, the fruit of theدَوْم: n. un. with ة. (Mṣb.) A rájiz says,

* لَوْ كُنْتُمُ تَمْرًا لَكُنْتُمُ دَقَلَا *

* أَوْ كُنْتُمُ مَآءً لَكُنْتُمُ و شَلَا *

[If ye were dates, ye would be dates of the worst kind; and if ye were water, ye would be such as distils scantily, in interrupted drops, from a mountain or rock]. (TA.)

word: دَقَلٌ ― (signification - A3)

Also The mast (سَهْم) of a ship;(Ṣ, Ḳ;) from the same word in the first of the senses explained above; (Ṣ;) in Pers., تِيرِ كِشْتِى, (MA, PṢ,) and سُتُونْ; (MA;) i. e., (or so دَقَلَةٌ[the n. un.], JK,) the tall piece of wood of a ship,(JK, T, M, Mgh,)fixed in the midst thereof,(JK, T, M,)for the sail,(JK,) i. e., upon which the sail is extended,(T,) or [rather]to which the sail is suspended;(Mgh;) as alsoدَوْقَلٌ↓. (Ḳ.)

دَقَلَةٌ

دَقَلَةٌ n. un. of دَقَلٌ[which see throughout]. (T, Ṣ, &c.)

word: دَقَلَةٌ ― (signification - A2)

شَاةٌ دَقَلَةٌ andدَقِلَةٌ↓ andدَقِيلَةٌ↓ andمُدْقِلٌ↓A sheep, or goat, lean, or emaciated, and small in body; despised and little in the eyes of beholders: pl., of any but the last, دِقَالٌ: (Ḳ:) or, as ISd thinks, the pl., of دَقِيلَةٌ is دَقَائِلُ, unless it be formed by the rejection of the augmentative letter [in the sing.]. (TA.)